In the waning days of the Virginia State Penitentiary, the iron bars on its cell doors had become covered in rust. The paint on its walls cracked and peeled and water steadily trickled in its ...

HOLLIDAYSBURG — Blair County commissioners aren’t showing interest in building a new prison on a light industrial site at 17th Street and Margaret Avenue, as suggested this week by a local ...

A Shasta County jury found a Redding man guilty with connection to a robbery at Umpqua Bank, one of three such robberies that happened at banks in the fall of 2023 in the North Sate. Gregory Lee ...

The disgraced former New York congressman might be earning a longer prison sentence thanks to his sour social media posts, which prosecutors argue demonstrate a lack of remorse Meredith Kile is a ...

Senator Chris Van Hollen said that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia,who was deported and incarcerated in El Salvador, reported having been transferred after weeks in a maximum-security prison.

What is that prison like? By Annie Correal Annie Correal has been covering El Salvador’s role in the Trump administration’s deportation plans. When Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of ...

This noise is distracting to most, yet I use it to write operas from a prison cell. Nothing about me says “opera composer.” I’m Black. I’m 6 feet tall, 245 pounds, and I sport thicker-than-average ...

ROME and LONDON -- Pope Francis arrived on Thursday to meet with inmates at a prison in Rome amid the Catholic Holy Week, making a rare public appearance after his lengthy hospital stay last month.

El Salvador’s infamous CECOT prison is a maximum-security facility built to hold the country’s worst criminals in eight buildings across a space equal to seven football stadiums. The Center ...

WASHINGTON − Two House Democrats are requesting an official Congressional delegation visit to the prison in El Salvador where a Maryland man has been held despite a Supreme Court ruling that he ...

THOMSON, Ill. (KWQC) - An inmate from Thomson Prison escaped over the weekend. Officials from the Federal Bureau of Prisons said that, around 6 p.m. on Sunday, officials learned Shawn Edwards was ...

Faced with the possibility of losing more than a quarter of a million dollars in annual federal funding, the Berks County Prison Board for the second time in two months has adjusted its policy ...